Clara’s had a tough life. Raped by her step father. Ran away to become a teenaged stripper.
Her main job now is to run the bar she owns in Wichita, Kansas – The Rink.
Side job ➙ Hitwoman. And she’s very good at killing people. The best hitwoman in the business.
And in this book, Rinker partners up with another killer. Double trouble.
Her latest hit sounds simple: a defense attorney wants a rival eliminated. No problem—until a witness survives. Clara usually knows how to deal with loose ends: cut them off, one by one, until they’re all gone. This time, there’s one loose end that’s hard to shake.
Lucas Davenport has no idea of the toll this case is about to take on him. Clara knows his weak spots. She knows how to penetrate them, and how to use them. And when a woman like Clara has the advantage, no one is safe.
I was interested to read about the process, complicated by ancient history.
One strength of the Catholic Church is tradition.
The big weakness is tradition. It’s very difficult to reform / improve Catholicism, though I respect Pope Francis for trying.
The Pope is dead.
Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election.
They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals.
Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.
In Conclave, the hero is Cardinal Lomeli, dean of the College of Cardinals and the man responsible for presiding over the conclave. Among the papabile there is Tedesco the traditionalist, Tremblay the ambitious North American and Adeyemi the African with strong views on the role of women and gay marriage. …
Into this gathering there arrives a cardinal no one has heard of – Vincent Benítez, a cardinal in pectore, created by the pope in secret in order to protect his identity. The stage is thus set for a showdown. …
… Hit Man follows an undercover New Orleans police contractor who poses as a reliable hitman as he tries to save a woman in need.
The basic premise was based on the true story of a college professor who worked for the Houston police in the late 1980s and 1990s as a fake hitman …
Adria Arjona as Madison Figueroa Masters is gorgeous and most charismatic.
The HIT MAN is Glen Powell as Gary Johnson, college professor and tech guy turned undercover mole. … Or it might be Justin Hartley as the HIT MAN. Those two are probably the same actor. 😀
On Rotten Tomatoes, 95% of 295 critics’ reviews are positive.
I got through the thing only because the special effects are so amazing. HOW did they create that kind of video?
Some of the technology shown is based on REAL current science. The Phased Array Radar, for example.
But disrupting a tornado in real time is still not possible.
The plot is cliche. Best ignore it.
I wasn’t much convinced by any of the cast. Glen Powell was probably best. I thought he was Justin Hartley for the first part of the movie. Those two are very similar.
Acceptance about who you are. And being tolerant of others to be who they want to be.
I was quite charmed by the warm welcome Harper got dropping into a random Oklahoma biker bar. (You can still smoke in Oklahoma bars?)
Face to face, people are most often welcoming and open minded. Even rednecks in country bars.
Since 2020, right wing politicians have been attacking the rights of transgender people — simply as a way to motivate their most deplorable voters. Very few of those haters have ever once had an encounter with a trans person.
Considered and attempted suicide rate of transgender people in the United States
from 2000 to 2022, with a forecast from 2023 to 2030
Right wing politicians and influencers like Musk and J. K. Rowling are partially responsible for those suicides.
I admire Will Ferrell trying to bring trans folks some hope with this movie.
I’d to do the same if any of my friends announced they were transitioning.
It’s a complicated process. And different for every single person.
The film’s original score was composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. A remixed version was released in collaboration with Boys Noize. It’s very different than other movie background tracks. More YouTube than Hollywood.
It follows the love triangle between an injured tennis star-turned-coach (Zendaya), her low-circuit tennis player ex-boyfriend (Josh O’Connor), and her tennis champion husband (Mike Faist) across 13 years of their shared relationship, culminating in the latter two’s match at the ATP Challenger Tour.
Zendaya, O’Connor, and Faist trained for months with former tennis player and coach Brad Gilbert to prepare for their roles. …
The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed $94.2 million worldwide. …
Zendaya’s best friend and personal assistant Darnell Appling portrayed the umpire at the New Rochelle Final. He’s got the look.
In the film, the captain of an adventure racing team befriends a wounded stray dog named Arthur, who accompanies the team on a grueling 435-mile (700-km) endurance race through the Dominican Republic.
The actual suffering of a real Adventure Race World Championship is not shown in a Hollywood movie, of course. But there are bits of reality in the film.
It follows a CIA agent who finds himself at the mercy of a precocious nine-year-old girl in a family that he and his tech support are surveilling while undercover. …
Rick McCharles 